Thomas Hübl:
Today our kind of mutual exploration and kind of insight nugget is about our ancestral context. I mentioned the other day that one way of resourcing is what our ancestors hand over to us. And what are they handing over to us? Our ancestors … And let’s look at this for a moment. As you are sitting here and I am sitting here, hundreds of thousands of years of life, living is sitting here in its concentrated form. I think that’s amazing, that the roots of our ancestors into the planet … There’s my life and my ancestors’ lives, their cultures, mother of culture is nature, is the planet.
And often, we might experience ourselves as a particle that’s walking around on the planet when, in fact, every one of us is the planet living. I think that’s very important It’s also very important for ecology. We are the planet living, being alive. Biosphere is a living planet. And so integrated history against maybe something we have learned, that history is the past. I would say, “No.” Integrated history is presence alive through us having conversations, living in this world, innovating technology, having scientific breakthroughs, and caring for our children. Innovative life, integrated history, means that we are present with what is. And we notice this. These are the parts of our lives we can enjoy. These are the parts of our lives where we feel grounded, regulated, related.
So integrated history is here as us. Unintegrated history, traumatized history is the history that is split off, that is frozen in the permafrost of our cultures, that is frozen in our bodies, in our relationships, in our societies. That unintegrated history is often the part of our ancestry that our ancestors couldn’t deal with or even created harm, and they handed that over to us as well.
So the whole achievements of humanity plus all the trouble and all the also pain we created, we inflicted upon each other as humanity, has been handed over to us. And our soul has the power to bring light, creativity, innovation, healing into that whole legacy. Why I’m talking about that is, first of all, we often see like as if history is behind us. No. History is in us. And groundedness in life means that I’m connected to the ancestral stream.
That’s why ancestral healing work in our IAC framework, individual, ancestral, and collective fluidity, I call it, because trauma healing is liquefying the world, is making the world more fluid, and IAC trauma structures means that there are individual, ancestral, and collective trauma fields that are not evolving. They’re not developing. They’re frozen.
Ancestral healing work is very important because it’s part of liquefying and harvesting the learning that is still stuck in the trauma. Because long as we don’t integrate the trauma, we don’t integrate the learning. So with every trauma integration there is post-traumatic learning, because integration is learning. Integration expands who I am, how I look at the world, how much I can include. Unintegrated trauma, there is still some learning frozen in the ice and we can’t get to it. That’s why ancestral healing is very important because it’s liquefying the learning that our ancestors couldn’t harvest, couldn’t access, was too painful, or was the pain that our ancestors created. And we are here to take the whole thing a step forward.
And so ancestral work connects us to the ancestral resources, to the power, as I said. We are not the first ones going through beautiful and difficult times, and all the experience of life doing that is sitting in us. We have access to that resilience. And we can see in some people that survive terrible life circumstances how that resilience helped them to do that. And we also see that we have a package to carry, and if we carry that package of trauma that has been handed over to many of us with care, with curiosity, with interest … And we are also interested in the transgenerational relationality, which is a data flow. Our bodies can flow more when we open up the transgenerational data flow.
And so opening, doing ancestral work, but also just reconnecting, maybe just here, as you listen, to, “Wow, I am part of a bigger context and my roots matter, because when I know where I’m coming from, my direction and my purpose and vocation also get clearer.” It’s not because it’s a flow. It’s a stream.
And ancestral response-ability, being able to respond to our ancestors, opens our gates to the future generation and our responsibility towards the future. There is a cross-ancestral responsibility, responsibility in 2022, and a responsibility or sustainability to live a life that serves the future generations. That’s actually like holistic responsibility, sustainability, however we want to call it. And so in the trauma we might often feel numb, separate from our ancestors, and bringing attention also to the numbness. That the numbness is not bad, the numbness is a function. And if I learn how to work with that intelligence or that function, I can create more access to my ancestors and I can become the future that maybe inspired and supported and was a resource of our ancestors.
Same as sometimes in our lives, we feel the support and inner strength, almost a presence that is with us when we go through difficult situations. So we are not just existing as a separate particle without the context, we are in a much bigger context. And ancestral healing work can help us to feel that context and also heal the wounds that we carry.
So that we sometimes feel separate from nature and we treat nature like a commodity, or we abuse nature instead of living with nature in a mutual and respectful relationship. All of that and much more, of course, is part of ancestral healing. I hope you can take it into your day and move that forward with your own thinking and exploration in whichever way you want
